his new article on karl rove was just published today called, "karl rove: he's back, big time." his latest book is, "glock: the rise of america's gun." welcome to "democracy now!" tell us about karl rove and his organizations. >> he left the white house in 2007, seemingly a defeated man, inches away from having been indicted in scandal. he began plotting his return almost immediately. after watching the republicans beaten soundly in the polls and fundraising races in 2008, he and some colleagues began planning those two organizations to mention, the crossroads group. these are the republicans answers to some of the liberal outside fundraising groups that began to be active in 2004. but the republicans seem to have found a formula that have allowed them to leap for had of what the democrats are doing this time around, and expected it will raise in total $1 billion in addition to everything that mitt romney's campaign is raising and in addition to everything republican national committee is raising. it is thought to be twice with the democrats will be able to raise with their outs

some people are saying that karl rove is ten million dollar anonymous donation came from iran mahmoud ahmadinejad a strongly as shia muslim who's president of one of the few shia run states in the middle east some people are saying that ahmadinejad's a huge admirer of karl rove and a big supporter of the republican party after all george w. bush decided to bomb sunni iraq not shia iran giving shia ahmadinejad a heck of a lot more influence in the middle east and taking out sunni saddam hussein iran's biggest enemy against whom they fought a multi year war that cost them both billions of dollars and killed over a million people so some people are saying that the ten million dollar gift to rove is payback from shia iran for all the great things rove and bush did for them against the sunni muslims in addition some people are saying that the ten million dollar donation to karl rove has some strings attached that if romney wins or the republicans take the senate then all those sanctions president obama put on shia iran would immediately be lifted and we might even go after another sunni ru

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out of the karl rove campaign back. romney has been placed on the defensive. i don't quite understand what his campaign is trying to do. he talked about the economy, i think the overwhelming issue in the campaign, but he has been placed on the defensive. i think of the three you mentioned, the refusal to open up his taxes may prove to be the most hurtful for him. however, as you pointed out, not only is this singlely not dented his popularity overaurblings but in the key states, you and i agree, the key eight states in particular with independent and swing voters, not only has it not hurt him, in some ways, it has done a little bit better. >> this is where there seems to be a disagreement on the campaign. we're saying that, the observers. the obama campaign will say this is about trying to set a baseline on romney so he doesn't get to tell his own story. >> right, they're trying to disqualify him. they're saying the american public, ok, you may -- some of you may decide you don't want to rehire barack obama. ok, that's

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karl rove left attack dog super pac fronting as non-profit. unbelievable. >>> and later i can finally ask this in relations to politics, what is up with branjolina. i've been dying to say that. we'll be right back. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> jennifer: now for some good news. a wall street journal report released today shows that the housing market is actually recovering. you see this little dip up right there? somewhat good news. home prices are inching up after seven months of decline. but here is the not so good news, which is that one in four homes is still underwater, meaning of course the owners owe more on them than what they're actually worth. how do we prevent another housing bubble? according to mitt romney by doing absolutely nothing. first he criticized the administration for not doing enough saying if this administration continues to stick it's head in the sand sand wait for the housing crisis to run it's course, i'm afraid the president could end up losing his current residence in 2012. then less than a week later he completely re

process is one of the recent ads being run by karl rove's crossroads g.p.s. which is clearly a political ad and not one just being run in the interests of the general public good. while using the economy stronger in the seconds it takes to watch this our national debt will increase one point four million in two thousand and eight barack obama said we can't mortgaging our children's future on a mountain of debt and you know he's having four billion in debt every day borrowing from china for his spending every second growing our dead faster than our economy till obama stung the spending support of the new majority agenda and the new majority agenda dork the way these organizations have been able to skirt the law is that they end their ads with a call to action to support some organization like this new astroturf new majority agenda rather than any of their ads asking people to vote against president obama regardless of how the ad ends the point is the same to defeat the president and other democrats it's blatantly political and not one donor behind that ad has

next, karl rove and his social welfare organization targeting a takeover at the senate. no wonder this man is smiling. >> do you believe you will be the majority leader next year? >> 50-50. i think it's going to be a very close, competitive election. there are a number of places where we have opportunities for pick-ups. >>> social welfare is not a phrase one would normally associate with the republican party. after all, republicans have been railing against the concept ever since reagan raised the specter of free loading welfare queens during his campaign for the white house, but oh, how times have changed and instead of attacking welfare, today's republicans are taking it up as shield to protect some of their most secretive operations. >> it's time to play who's the biggest supporter of the obama agenda in ohio. it's sherrod brown. brown backed obama's agenda a whopping 95% of the time. >> that is an attack ad against senator sherrod brown, democratic, that came out today from karl rove's quote social welfare group. it's part of a multi-million dollar ad buy in other sw

. >>> next, karl rove wastes no time hitting the president on jobs. a new $25 million ad buy to spread some cheer. stay with us. ople have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. but they haven't experienced extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed that it relieved their headache fast. visit fastreliefchallenge.com today for a special trial offer. >>> today's tepid job numbers seem to have been welcomed by republicans who strongly believe they'll do well in november if the country does badly. so it was no surprise to see karl rove's crossroads xwrks prk gps release a new ad this morning. >> head winds coming from europe. an earthquake in japan. an arab spring. >> but obama never blames washington's spending and skyrockets debt. >> but the president appeared to be expecting this latest. >> you've got the super pacs, billionaires writing $10 million checks. just pouring, raining down on my head. no, this is all right because i'm -- >> julianna glover is a republican strategist, julian epstein is

but take a look at this ad aired by one of these five hundred one c four is run by karl rove and you be the judge on whether it's a political ad or not. why isn't the economy stronger in the seconds it takes to watch this our national debt will increase one point four million in two thousand and eight barack obama said we can't mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt now he's getting four billion in debt every day borrowing from china for his spending every second growing our debt faster than our economy to stop the spending support the new majority agenda new majority agenda dork. seems awfully political to me and it seems awfully political to democratic congressman chris van hollen who are the i.r.s. to reexamine the tax exempt status of these groups as van hollen told reuters quote the i.r.s. has a responsibility to make sure that these groups are not defrauding taxpayers that they are not abusing the charitable organizations status pursuing political purposes and quote now here's the kicker ninety one percent of all the political ads coming from outside groups this e

the obama campaign has dented rom northeast' strength, karl rove couldn't have done a better job. perhaps it was because the romney camp was so eager to change that subject that they let slip to drudge that condoleeza rice emerged as a top vp pick. there are lots of reasons to believe this is nothing more than a shiny bright object to take our attention off of bain. but she would probably help romney plug a number of holes. plus, president obama says his biggest mistake is putting policy over storytelling. i talked about that two nights ago here. why doesn't the president do a better job of telling people what he's accomplished. and what happens to penn state in the wake of the sandusky report? will it g biven the ncaa's death

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karl rove has made a down payment of 40 milli$40 million and they're trying to buy the election. >> we await what sheldon adelson's going to do. >>> next, did the president snuff out boehner and the boy's calls for repeal of obama care? but first, good afternoon, tyler. >> it have the third day in a row for losses for the dow industrials. that was the worst scream of losses since early june. let's look at how the numbers stack ed up. the industrials at 12,736 off 36 points. s&p 500, deuces wild there. the nasdaq down 5.5 at 2931. martin will be right back after this. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. >>> republicans in congress who returned to work today may well have been looking forward to another vote on the health care law. as tray practice talking points, the president was about to surprise them with another announcement. after reminding republicans he's cut small business tax

our next guest explains how karl rove is back in a big way. follow the wings. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. >>> five years after karl rove left president bush's white house following a federal grand jury investigation, the advisor known as bush's brain is once again a driving force in presidential politics. his group, american crossroads and super pac crossroads gps have already spent $94 million on tv ads this cycle. more than twice that of what the romney campaign has shelled out. it's the subject of this week's bloomberg business week cover story, karl rove, he's back big-time. rove tells assistant managing editor paul barrett that his strategy came out of the democrats' playbook. the left pioneered the use of 527s and 501cs years ago, spending millions of dollars to influence public opinion and the policy landscape. p

it's interesting from karl rove. >> well boohoo hoo. the republicans went through this in the primary. you have republican candidates who turn out not to be fans of transparency to begin with questioning him asht his tax returns. i didn't see karl rove and others coming out there taking a strong stand that mitt romney had to be transparent. and had to give out this information. you elect a one percenter -- you nominate. and that's what you're going to get. i keep coming back to this same point, though. bill kristol and karl rove can suck their thumb and give the best political advice to romney but they don't know what's there to be revealed. mitt romney does. he's not a dumb man. he's a smart man that does risk management. i have to believe he's done the risk calculation here. and it's riskier for him to tell people what he's done than take attacks. >> aside from that, we're he hearing a lot on the right stating eric eriksson shocked that romney's not dealing with the tax question better. but there's something else that comes to mind he

karl rove has his own role as a republican king maker. i wonder what your take is on what karl rove may have to say about important decisions in the romney campaign, both concerning george w. bush and also about a vice presidential candidate. it's pawlenty, ryan, jindal, and portman. we have karl rove's pick is marco rubio. how much influence does he have? >> rove has zero influence on these folks except, of course, he heads up the super pac that's going to spend a lot of money, and that's a good thing for the romney point of view. but rove and the bushies are personas non grata, whatever the right latin is to make sure these people should stay away. rove can articulate a strong republican message, but he is not the person that romney is listening to. bush is not the person that the romney campaign wants everyone reminded of. the bush years are over. >> wayne slater, senior political writer for the dallas morning news. it's great to have you here. >> great to be leer. >> all right, new crazy conspiracy theories are cooking on the right. a

you have folks from texas who are good friends, old friends of karl rove. bob kerrey, a homebuilder in houston, harold simmons, an investor in dallas. they have both given substantial contributions to karl rove's group american crossroads, the one publicly has to release its super pac -- the super pac has to release the names of its donors. they have also helped romney super pac. there are wall street -- prominent wall street billionaires who have also been active. paul singer is one of the more prominent hedge funds executives who runs the elliott management. these are just a few of the other large names. the koch brothers who are each roughly worth what sheldon adelson is worth, $25 billion each, for many years have been working to boost outside groups on the conservative side of the spectrum. this year, koch groups have talked about spending as much as $400 million in the elections to support republican candidates and to help defeat democrats. >> peter stone and stephen engelberg, thank you for being with us. peter stone is a freelancer with "huffington

justice scalia or karl rove? >> it's hard not to disagree with justice scalia. the idea that karl rove is saying we can't let you know that we're giving money to republicans because you'll be mad at us, it makes me really feel that maybe karl rove isn't that confident that people would be enthusiastic about the policies. it's quite clear that these sort of element on the right is giving money for a purpose. they want low taxes, deregulation of their own industries. in this case, i think i have to side with scalia. >> real quickly. >> it is such hi pock rasy. the whole time campaign finance reform is debated, all the republicans said, oh, we're for campaign finance reform. we just want disclosure and then when the disclose act comes up, they threaten to filibuster it. this is one of many examples of just rank hypocrisy. even scalia is for disclosure, but these right wing republicans are so far out there. >> opposes the policies. >> we're going to have to make that the last word. thank you very much for being here. >>> next, tensions over -- tension overseas acros

that's not the way to prosper y prosperity. >> karl rove will be on fox and friends at 6:30 a.m. stick around for that. >>> it is a tribute to those who fought for our country. why is the aclu trying to tear down the mount solidad memorial. for more on that we go to shannon green. >> the battle ore the memorial erected in the 1950s to honor korean war vets has been raging since 1989. the memorial anchored by a large cross on federal land. the aclu has been suing to take it down saying it unlawfully tangles government with religion. they ruled the cross is unconstitutional prompting an apepeal to the court. the justices declined to take up the appeal leaving the parties to take up negotiations about what to do with the cross. here's what he said then. >> want different ways to slice the pie and we are going to go back to talk to the district court and the government we will arrive at an appropriate remedy and solution. >> for days the memorial association found out the justice department has been negotiating with the justice department but not them. done chaunter says he's very co

check out karl rove. >> on halloween night, the press check out karl rove. >> on halloween night, the press was treated to a twick top advisors. vice president chaney who has hammered kerry for months delivered a final jab. >> in my opinion, john kerry's goose is cooked. >> when you give chaney the punchline, you know you're in trouble. when we come back, barack obama owns this economy. this team has said so he owns the economy. plus "scoops and predi" of these top reporters. be right back. chris: welcome back. 80 years ago the dow jones hit its lowest level after the crash. her better hoover was swept out of office, f.d.r. swept in. hoover was held responsible, well voters decide to hold barack obama responsible in a hoover way? obama's big cam feign brain has conceded the president owns this economy. >> so the person who is least satisfied with where the economy is president obama. >> he owns it, would you agree with that, he owns this economy? >> of course, he does. >> matt lauer nailed him into that coffin. my question, does david wish he had that to take back, the president owns

karl rove. >> i don't know if karl rove was directly advising mitt romney if he would say, let's not release them and keep going. >> what would karl rove say? >> i think he would say, let's get rid of this as soon as possible so we can drive the agenda. >> exactly. >> that's why -- segue -- he actually got into the business of crossroads. american crossroads, crossroads gps, which as we know, 52741-c. karl rove is not advising a presidential candidate formally. he's gotten into the business of taking billionaires' money and applying it to the race in a way that's unprecedented. five years ago he slinked out of washington. he was in front of the federal grand jury five times. his personal fortune was depleted. his capital in washington was depleted. the president was doing terribly. he went back to austin and he was able to see what happened over his tenure. in sports, somebody wins, somebody loses. in 2004, john kerry lost but something fundamental happened. on the one hand you had the swift boat veterans for truth. then you had george soros. kerry lost but when rove looks at the cam

. >> and now look at who is talking and karl rove and charles krauthammer are talking. they are discussing the president's comments last week that if you have a business, the government helped you build it. here is charles on how this has impacted mitt romney. >> having the one thing that romney has going for him now, you watched him in that clip, and he has a spring in his step. i think obama has made the gaffe of the year when he said if you created a business you didn't build it. that phrase "you didn't build it," should be hung around obama until the end of the presidency. >> although democrats say in the totality of the statement, that he was talking about teachers and government helping with roads and the push back. >> i read the totality of the statement and it is worse if you read it all. essentially he has the view different than the majority of americans which is enterprise, initiative, the markets are what drive america's wealth and excellence, and government is a parasite and lives off the excess of wealth, in the form of taxation. obama has the view at the

karl rove disagrees with charles krauthammer. so do i, your humble correspondent. we have interesting facts on how the presidential vote is shaping up. >>> i think it's bad for the presidency. he's opining and telling people how it ought to be done. >> shouldn't president bush help the republican party win back the white house? dana perino will help us out on that. >>> also tonight, lou dobbs on whether the obama administration even knows where billions in taxpayer stimulus has gone. >> windmills from china, electric cars from finland. >> caution. you are about to enter the no-spin zone. the factor begins right now. hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. who would win the presidential election if it were held today? that is the subject ofhis evening talking points memo. last night charles krauthammer predicted president obama would win if the vote were held right now. >> he's got a two-point edge in the popular vote. it's almost inconceivable that you would have that strong an excess in the overall vote and lose in the lec electoral colle. >> howeve

as you know karl rove is running one of those big pacs. i think in general the pacs are going to -- there's a symbolic relationship between them whether legal lines are crossed or not, i don't know. if you are going to see certain thematic things coming out of the romney campaign, you'll probably see them coming out of the super pacs. the super pacs may try something and if campaigns look and say that work well, you may see the campaigns following them. in terms of the specific foreign policy issues and having residents in certain states, yes, i think for sure. for example, you see trade and international trade policy being much bigger deal in the rust belt than in the south or in the west. there's a big jewish vote in florida. there are more residents in florida and if new jersey becomes a swing state there. there are pockets of ethnic possibilities. for example, muslim vote is becoming stronger. that leads the domestic side more than national security so i didn't raise it so it is part and parcel with national security so immigration wil

we'll hear from karl rove. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back to "the five." betalk about politics and shaping up, coming up is the presidential election. our own karl rove and joe trippi contributors to fox news and both who have run presidential campaigns have a new electoral map they say this is their best thinking looking at the polls. we pull up the map and take a look at the different states, ones that lean romney, ones that lean obama. yellow ones you see there are tossups. bob, you need 270 electoral votes in order to win the presidency. do you think that this map is accurate? >> bob: it's accurate. there are things here that are interesting and should be concern to obama. not the least of which is michigan. romney was, you know, that is, he is considered the romney family. that is his home state of many. but that is the one he claims. the other thing, as michigan goes, so goes ohio. ohio is a critical here. the three states i think they need to concentrate on are ohio, where they think they can win the race. ohio, florida, michigan. but the other stat